Download e-book for iPad: Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria by Jan Dusek

By Jan Dusek

ISBN-10: 900418385X

ISBN-13: 9789004183858

The subject of the publication stands at the intersection of epigraphy and historic study: the Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions chanced on within the neighborhood of the Yahwistic sanctuary on Mt. Gerizim and their ancient history. The learn addresses the facts from 3 views: the paleography and courting of the inscriptions; the id of the neighborhood who carved them and its associations; and, ultimately, the bigger old and political context during which the inscriptions have been produced. This e-book is very precious for historians of Palestine within the moment Temple interval, for biblical students, and for these facing Aramaic and Hebrew paleography and epigraphy.

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And . – pe without baseline: . This could be used as final pe in the cursive style, but is not attested in that position in the cursive inscriptions. . Common Features The monumental style of Aramaic script from Mt. Gerizim shares many letters with the cursive style. These letters reflect a similar stage of development of the Aramaic script as the cursive style: – bet: – dalet: – he: – het: . . Dating the Aramaic Monumental Script Let’s summarize the results of our analysis. The Aramaic inscriptions in monumental style are later than those from the Persian period: the Mt.

The same form of dalet and resh is attested among the lapidary inscriptions in the Kerak and in the Tayma inscription. Some forms of resh have the head reduced to a horizontal or slightly concave stroke. – This form is typical in the two early Nabataean inscriptions from Halas. a and that of As. lah. ˘ from Petra. – Shin – – In the first type of shin the left stroke is vertical. In the second type the left stroke of shin inclines to the left. It is not clear that this inclination of the left stroke really distinguishes two types of shin.

This indifference to distinctions between initial/middle and final forms is the same as in Aramaic cursive. . Dating the “Mixed Script” Most of the letters are the same as in the Aramaic script. Many of them are identical to the forms used in the cursive. This means that these inscriptions were written in the same time as the Aramaic cursive inscriptions. They can be dated, thus, to the same period as the Aramaic inscriptions written in the cursive style: approximately the first half of the nd century bce.